Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field
Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field
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漫画、语言学和视觉语言：一个领域的过去和未来
DOI：
10.1057/9781137004109_5
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发表时间：
2012
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通讯作者：
Neil Cohn
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作者：
Neil Cohn
许多漫画作者将他们的创作过程比作语言的过程。杰克·金·柯比是美国主流漫画中最有影响力的艺术家之一，他曾评论道：“我一直在写作，我一直在画画”(Kirby 1999)。同样，日本的漫画之神手冢修也说，我不认为他们的照片是…的事实上，我不是在画画。我正在写一个具有独特符号类型的故事‘(Schodt 1983)。最近，漫画艺术家克里斯·威尔在《麦克斯威尼》(第13期)的引言中说，漫画不是一种流派，而是一种发展中的语言。此外，几位漫画作家在写他们的媒介时，将漫画的特性描述为一种语言。威尔·艾斯纳(Will Eisner，1985)将手势和图形符号比作视觉词汇，这一观点得到了斯科特·麦克克劳德(Scott McCloud，1993)的呼应，他还将控制面板顺序的属性描述为其语法。与此同时，《甲壳虫贝利》(Beetle Bailey)的艺术家莫特·沃克(Mort Walker，1980)将漫画中使用的图形标志和符号归类到他的幽默词典《漫画词典》(The Licion Of Comicana)中。的确，在漫画创作者的头脑中，漫画和语言之间似乎有一种直观的联系，这一信念得到了几位语言研究人员的认同，他们从语言学的角度讨论漫画的性质。探索这些著作可以洞察这种比较的可能程度，它的局限性，以及它如何指导未来的研究。在许多方面，漫画不属于当代语言学的正常研究范围，不是因为它们是一个不合适的话题，而是因为语言是人类行为，而漫画不是。漫画是一种社会对象，源于人类的两种行为：写作和绘画。如果相信“漫画”是调查对象，
Many authors of comics have metaphorically compared their writing process to that of language. Jack ‘King’Kirby, one of the most influential artists of mainstream American comics, once commented,‘I’ve been writing all along and I’ve been doing it in pictures’(Kirby 1999). Similarly, Japan’s ‘God of Comics’ Osamu Tezuka stated,‘I don’t consider them pictures… In reality I’m not drawing. I’m writing a story with a unique type of symbol’(Schodt 1983). Recently, in his introduction to McSweeny’s (Issue 13), comic artist Chris Ware stated that ‘Comics are not a genre, but a developing language.’Furthermore, several comic authors writing about their medium have described the properties of comics like a language. Will Eisner (1985) compared gestures and graphic symbols to a visual vocabulary, a sentiment echoed by Scott McCloud (1993), who also described the properties governing the sequence of panels as its ‘grammar.’Meanwhile, Mort Walker (1980), the artist of Beetle Bailey, has catalogued the graphic emblems and symbols used in comics in his facetious dictionary, The Lexicon of Comicana. Truly, there seems to be an intuitive link between comics and language in the minds of their creators, a belief shared by several researchers of language who discuss properties of comics in a linguistic light. Exploring these works can provide insight into the extent to which this comparison might hold, its limitations, and how it can guide future research. In many respects, comics do not fall within the normal scope of inquiry for contemporary linguistics, not because they are an inappropriate topic but because language is a human behavior while comics are not. Comics are a social object resulting from two human behaviors: writing and drawing. Believing ‘comics’ are an object of inquiry would
DOI：
10.5860/choice.34-1950
发表时间：
1996-05
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作者：
G. Kress;T. V. Leeuwen
通讯作者：
G. Kress;T. V. Leeuwen